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From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: natetheking@gmail.com
Subject: Re: lower level stuff
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 07:02:52 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4473949C.7080003@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bb9a78950605231441o297b3419rf4c6b64dde20a655@mail.gmail.com>

Nathan King wrote:
> Hey folks,
> 
> Bit new to this. I want to monkey with the drivers that do the actual
> fillrect and bitblt business. Is ts vga16fb I want, or is there
> something else now. Using Fedora Core 5.
>

Several drivers do everything or in part in hardware.  That would be
rivafb, i810fb, nvidiafb, savagefb, atyfb, radeonfb, etc.

vga16fb still does it in software, but it has it's own functions because
of the planar nature of vga graphics.

Tony


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      reply	other threads:[~2006-05-23 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-23 21:41 lower level stuff Nathan King
2006-05-23 23:02 ` Antonino A. Daplas [this message]

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